Gilderdale Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1984. Viaduct.
Gilderdale Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- tilted-belfry-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1984
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Gilderdale Viaduct, Alston Moor, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 703 486
- Coordinates
- 54.83177, -2.46324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gilderdale Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct built in 1852, likely designed by Sir George Barclay-Bruce. It is constructed from squared stone with tooled and margined ashlar dressings. The structure features a central elliptical arch flanked by lower semicircular arches. The arch rings are chamfered and include keystones and impost blocks, while the intrados of the arches displays channeled rustication. There are flanking pilasters with rusticated quoins, and a projecting half-round band at the base of the parapet, which ends in low rectangular piers topped with pyramidal caps. This viaduct was part of the Alston branch of the Newcastle-Carlisle railway.
Local climate
Gilderdale Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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